Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination — substantive hearing
GDC panel orders dental nurse Martin Wells erased from the register
The GDC's Professional Conduct Committee has ordered that dental nurse Martin Wells be erased from the register and suspended his registration with immediate effect. The published outcome summary does not set out the charges, and the decision is within the appeal period.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 6 August 2026 · Updated 17 August 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Martin Wells, dental nurse (General Dental Council 243478).
Decision date: 6 August 2026 · Hearing started 3 August 2026 and ended 11 August 2026
In plain English
The GDC tribunal decided that dental nurse Martin Wells should be erased from the register. The Professional Conduct Committee made the order on 6 August 2026 and ordered that his registration be suspended immediately. The GDC records that the decision is within the appeal period. The published outcome summary for this hearing does not set out the charges or the committee's findings, and no full determination document was available on the hearing page at the time of publication.
Findings
On 6 August 2026 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Wells from the register and ordered that his registration be suspended immediately. The record notes the decision is within the appeal period. The hearing page carries an outcome summary only: no determination document was published with it, so the charges and the committee's findings of fact are not in the public record on this page.
Source
All facts on this page are drawn from the publicly published Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination linked below. MedicWatch does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.
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